Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager

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Applies to: System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager

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Introduction

This article describes improvements and issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager. This article also contains the installation instructions for this update. See more information about this update.

Note Existing Data Protection Manager to Windows Azure customers should upgrade to the latest agent (version 2.0.9085.0 or a later version). If the latest agent is not installed, online backups may fail.

Features

Backup storage migration

With this update installed, you can now migrate your backup storage between volumes. This enables you to optimize storage usage, as you can choose to move and store data sources on volumes that are best suited to optimize performance. You can also migrate data sources when a volume is filled with backups and can't be extended.

Volume exclusion

DPM 2016 with Modern Backup Storage accepts volumes to store backups, and formats the selected volumes to ReFS. While DPM excludes system volumes in the list of volumes that are available to be formatted, additional volumes can be configured to be excluded from the list based on drive letter or mountpoint path. This avoids accidental selection of these volumes as backup volumes.

Support for TLS 1.2

TLS 1.2 is a secure method of communication that is recommended by Microsoft. For DPM, TLS 1.2 is applicable for certificate-based authentication and protecting workloads to cloud.

For more information about how to set up, configure, and run your environment with TLS 1.2, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

When you create a Protection Group to back up files and folders, size calculation can take a long time if the folders contain many files. You can changing a registry key to instruct DPM to accept the volume size as default instead of calculating the size of each file, thereby saving time.

Optimized CC for RCT VMs

Optimized consistency check for Hyper-V RCT based VM backup eliminates the storage bloat caused by CC operation of RCT VM and also improves the performance of this operation.

Improvements and issues that are fixed

BMR and System State data source backups consume more storage when you use Modern Backup Storage.

When you configure Tape Library sharing, SetSharedDpmDatabase.exe command crashes when SQL 2012 is used as the DPM database.

If a disk backup is in progress, tape backup jobs of the data source may fail.

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Installation instructions for Data Protection Manager

To install this update for Data Protection Manager, follow these steps:

Before you install this update, make a backup of the Data Protection Manager database.

Install this rollup package on the server that's running System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager. To do this, run Microsoft Update on the server.

In the Data Protection Manager Administrator Console, update the protection agents. To do this, use one of the following methods.